Bench fee for doctoral students

Ghent University has developed a general bench fee guideline allowing us to request this contribution from funders in a transparent and coherent way.

Since academic year 2017-2018 PhD students are required to contribute to the costs of their research activities on top of settling the tuition fee.

This annual lump-sum contribution or 'bench fee' is used by the supervisor to pay for expenses as a result of conducting high-quality research (use of laboratory, study material, research equipment, participation to seminars, conferences,…)

As this is an official governance rule it is part of the codex where all details can be found. That document is in Dutch and for internal use only.

UGent can make arrangements with certain PhD scholarship financers to set other benchfee amounts, in the frame of overall agreements. Such agreements are in place for example with the Higher Education Commission (HEC, Pakistan); the China Scholarship Council (CSC, China); Senecyt Ecaudor, Colfuturo Colombia, …. More information on this (internal) page.

As a PhD student with external funding, you can contact your promotor to know more details.

Read this webpage In Dutch.

 

Annual benchfee amounts per faculty and doctoral degree

Faculty Doctoral degree
Annual Bench fee amount (in euros)
Arts and Philosophy All 4,480
Law and Criminology All 4,480
Sciences Doctor of Science: Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Doctor of Science: Biochemistry
Doctor of Science: Biotechnology
Doctor of Science: Biology
Doctor of Science: Chemistry
Doctor of Science: Physics and Geology
Doctor of Science: Geology
Doctor of Science: Marine Sciences
Doctor of Science: Physics
Doctor of Science: Geography
Doctor of Science: Geomatics and Surveying
Doctor of Science: Astronomy
Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science: Bioinformatics
Doctor of Computer Science
Doctor of Statistical Data Analysis
Doctor of Science: Mathematics
17,920
17,920
17,920
13,440
13,440
13,440
13,440
13,440
8,960
8,960
8,960
8,960
8,960
4,480
4,480
4,480
4,480
Medicine and Health Sciences All 13,440
Engineering and Architecture All 8,960
Economics and Business Administration All 4,480
Veterinary Medicine All 13,440
Psychology and Educational Sciences All 4,480
Bioscience Engineering All 13,440
Pharmaceutical Sciences All 13,440
Political and Social Sciences All 4,480

 

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